Update.
Funny stuff going on here.
Probably got more than that worth of publicity.
My guess. Drunk idiot leaves $1000 tip to the pretty waitress. Card processor declines as being way out of the ordinary. Meanwhile, drunk idiot gets home and the ball and chain finds out about the $1000 tip and all hell breaks loose. Has “second thoughts” among screeches of HALF! REEEEEE! HALF! In the end both the waitress and the owner got trolled in a rather cruel way.
At first she was claiming that her employer was trying to stiff her on the tip. Now we hear that the owner claims the the credit card transaction was declined, but is going to give her the money anyway. That’s quite a 180. I wonder what really happened.
““I’m ready to give it to her as a Christmas gift.””
Nonsense. The patron gave her the tip and the employer tried to make excuses to keep it.
I am still POd for being misled buy the first story.
Wow, her employer sounds like a complete sucker. Seems like all of these stories I read about waitresses and their tips turn out to be fraud by the waitresses themselves.
I wonder why the restaurant owner gave her the price of the meal too. That seems kind of weird.
I’ll bet the owner was being murdered on Twitter. People tend to get outraged very easily if certain conditions are in place.
But the eatery now insists the ordeal was a misunderstanding — and they couldn’t pay out the tip because the transaction didn’t go through.
“It’s like the bank telling you like, ‘Oh, it’s fraud. We’re not going to do it,’” the general manager, who declined to be identified, told KENS.
“If I put a $2,000 tip on mine? My bank is going to deny it. They’re going to deny it. They’re going to deny it because I do not normally do that; I do not normally tip that way.”
What bank? It was a VISA card transaction.
Convenient.
Back in the day, I shuttled food for a company that was a precursor to Uber Eats and Doordash (no Internet back then). Dispatch used two-way mobile radios to call us out in the field and send us to one or more restaurants to pick up the order. I had one customer give me a $300 tip on the check. The good news was, the check cleared and I got my money. The bad news was, the dude was psycho, off his meds, and murdered his parents a few hours before. The gun he used was in the hall closet where he handed me the check. I realized later how badly things could have gone sideways for me.